The world's oldest independent air force's war started on 30 November 1939 with a Soviet invasion. This WINTER WAR found the Ilmavoimat, or Finnish Air Force (FAF), facing 9-to-1 odds against the Red Air Force with less than fifty operational fighters, 18 bombers, and a hodge-podge of miscellaneous aircraft. Yet the Winter War ended 13 March 1940 with grievous Soviet losses.

THE CONTINUATION WAR was fought from 25 June 1941 to 4 September 1944, again with the Ilmavoimat giving harder than it got.

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Please note that the old Finnish Air Force national insignia, the blue swastika, dates back to 1918, when Swedish count Eric von Rosen donated the first aircraft for the Finnish Air Force. The blue swastika was the old Hindu lucky sign that the Rosen family used and had nothing to do with the later Nazi swastika. (source, http://www.sci.fi/~fta/FAFhist.htm The Finnish Air Force,
FAF, A HISTORICAL REVIEW, By Lt Gen (FAF ret) Heikki Nikunen)

The Rules and RegsAny model of a warplane flown by the Ilmavoimat during WWII, of any scale to 1/144 is allowed. Dioramas are allowed. Participants can enter as many models as they want.

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